CIVIL RIGHTS
Trans Woman in “False Personation” Lawsuit Settles
Mocked after giving legal and birth name, Bronxite wins $30K; NYPD pledges training
BY PAUL SCHINDLER
A transgender woman arrested
for cutting across
a city park after hours
and then slapped with
a “false personation” charge after
giving police both her legal name
and her name at birth has reached
a settlement with the NYPD, her attorneys
at the New York Civil Liberties
Union (NYCLU) and the ACLU
LGBT & HIV Project announced on
November 10.
The woman, Linda Dominguez,
exited a city bus near Claremont
Park in the Bronx late one evening
in April 2018 and, along with other
individuals, cut across the park to
reach her home. When the group
was stopped by police for being in
the park after its offi cial closing
time, Dominguez was the only one
arrested.
When taken to the 44th precinct,
Linda Dominguez, a transgender woman arrested in 2018 on charges of “false personation,” has settled
her lawsuit with the NYPD and the city.
Dominguez gave offi cers
both her legal name and the name
she was given at birth, but in addition
to a criminal trespassing
charge she was also charged with
“false personation” — a statutory
offense aimed at people who misrepresent
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their identity to law enforcement
offi cials. She specifi cally
explained to police that she had
legally changed her name because
she is a transgender woman.
In a YouTube video about the
lawsuit that the NYCLU and
ACLU fi led on her behalf in 2019,
Dominguez described the mocking
and harassment she suffered while
in custody.
“The policewoman looked at me
as if there was something wrong
with me,” she said. “They mocked
me. ‘That’s a man, that’s not a
man, what’s that?’”
The humiliation, Dominguez
said, devastated her.
“I went through so much trauma
being arrested in this way,”
she recalled. “It really was a very
horrible experience. I was about to
take my own life. People who aren’t
as strong may take their life if they
experience this too. I decided to do
this lawsuit so they don’t keep doing
this.”
Under the terms of the settlement
of Dominguez’s lawsuit, the
NYPD has agreed to redistribute
➤ LINDA DOMINGUEZ, continued on p.19
POLITICS
Ric Grenell, Ex-DNI and Idiot, Salutes War Criminal
Trump’s former intel chief punked into giving shout out to My Lai massacre’s Calley
BY PAUL SCHINDLER
From the perspective of the
Peter Principle concept
in management studies,
out gay Ric Grenell rose
to his level of incompetence when
he served for three months earlier
this year as acting director of National
Intelligence (DNI).
If there was any doubt that
Grenell was poorly equipped for
the fi eld of Intelligence — or intelligence
— it came on Veteran’s Day,
November 11, when the Vichy gay
probably best known for his vicious
internet trolling over the past
decade offered a Twitter salute to
Lieutenant William Calley, Jr., who
was court-martialed in 1971 for
the premeditated murder of 22 unarmed
South Vietnamese civilians
during the infamous 1968 My Lai
massacre.
Believe it or not, for three months Ric Grenell was in charge of America’s national intelligence operations.
Grenell was duped by Ken Klippenstein,
a reporter at The Nation,
who direct-messaged Grenell with
a picture of Calley at the time of
his court-martial and wrote, “Sir,
my grandpa is a huge fan of yours,
here he is as a young lieutenant. If
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you could shout him out it’d make
his day!”
Grenell quickly responded, asking,
“What’s his name?,” to which
Klippenstein responded, “Bill Calley.”
The former head of our nation’s
intelligence services promptly
tweeted, “Thank you for your service,
Bill Calley!”
Later, when Grenell realized he’d
been punked, he tweeted, “Duped.
Trying to be helpful to people who
reach out on Veteran’s Day. It’s a
shame people would do this on a
day like today. DC is a sick city.”
Klippenstein shot back, “I’m actually
a Wisconsin resident how
dare you disrespect a swing state
voter.”
In fact, less than a week before
Grenell had been in Nevada,
disrespecting swing state voters
there with wild accusations of ballot
irregularities in a state that
President-Elect Joe Biden won by
nearly 37,000 votes. After a press
conference where he and other
Always-Trumpers declined to offer
➤ RIC GRENELL, continued on p.19
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